> Skip to content

Much-recommended by new mothers, this is the only book you'll need for the best baby advice. Now completely revised and updated.

Much-recommended by new mothers, this is the only book you'll need for the best baby advice. Now completely revised and updated.

Refreshingly honest, openly frank and candidly blunt, this book has been written by a mother (who is also an experienced midwife) for other mothers. It oozes warm fuzzies, exudes realism in every paragraph and is refreshing in its guiltless honesty.

Modern first-time mothers are often alone - devoid of once-traditional motherhood knowledge and practical support. Often previously self-confident women find themselves isolated, fumbling over everyday mothering tasks, enduring sleep deprivation, feeling desperately despondent - and aching and leaking everywhere.

This book provides supportive, caring advice - one mum to another - while at the same time serving as an encyclopaedic medical reference regarding the mother and baby. Checked thoroughly by medical professionals, this book is a unique blend, like having access to a kind and gentle GP as well as to all the gems of wisdom of years of mothers' coffee groups.

This title clearly and compassionately explains the ups as well as the downs which are perfectly normal aspects of giving birth and mothering in today's society.

Formats & editions

  • Trade Paperback

    9781775538523

    February 29, 2016

    Random House NZ

    496 pages

    RRP $45.00

    Online retailers

    • Fishpond
    • Mighty Ape
    • Paper Plus
    • The Warehouse
    • Whitcoulls
    • The Nile
    Or

    Find your local bookstore at www.booksellers.co.nz/directory

  • EBook

    9781775538684

    February 29, 2016

    RHNZ Adult ebooks

    Online retailers

    • iBooks NZ
    • Amazon Kindle
    • Google Play
    • Kobo
    • Booktopia NZ
    Or

    Find your local bookstore at www.booksellers.co.nz/directory

Recommendations

Eat Right 4 Your Type
Up the Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy
At My Table
Women Who Run With The Wolves
The 4 Pillar Plan
New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner
Sweet Poison Quit Plan
Pregnancy Day-by-Day
Bump It Up
The Natural Way To A Better Pregnancy
The Lose Your Belly Diet
What Men Want
Where Did My Libido Go?
The One-Week Baby Sleep Solution
The New Puberty
I Found My Tribe
Rants in the Dark
The IVF Diet
The Homebirth Handbook
The His and Hers Guide to Pregnancy and Birth